All About High Efficiency Toilets (HETs)
Toilets are by far the main source of water use in the home, accounting for nearly 30 percent of an average home’s indoor water consumption. Older, inefficient toilets also happen to be a major source of wasted water in many homes. Replacing these toilets with WaterSense labeled toilets could save nearly 2 billion gallons per day across the country—that’s nearly 11 gallons per toilet in your home every day! By retrofitting your entire bathroom with WaterSense labeled fixtures from us, you can save even more.
What Are High-Efficiency Toilets?
Under U.S. Federal law, new toilets must not use more than 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf). High-efficiency toilets (HETs) go beyond the standard and use 1.28 gpf, a 20% savings (6 liters v. 4.8 liters). The WaterSense label can be applied to HETs that are certified by an independent testing laboratory to meet strict criteria for both performance and efficiency. HETs must complete the third-party certification process to earn the right to bear the WaterSense label.
Do High Efficiency Toilets Work?
Everyone is concerned about the performance of low-flow toilets. Do they clear the bowl and leave it clean? Do they stop up frequently? Unlike the first 1.6 gpf toilets, WaterSense HETs combine high efficiency with high performance. Advances in toilet design permit WaterSense HETs to save water without loss of flushing power. Many HETs actually perform better than standard toilets, a testament to the use of computers to design them rather than the trial-and-error guesswork of earlier designs.
How Much Water and Money Do HETs Save?
High efficiency toilets save you money by reducing your water and wastewater costs. Over the course of a lifetime, an average person flushes the toilet nearly 140,000 times. If you install a WaterSense HET, you can save 4,000 gallons per year and your children can each save about a third of a million gallons during their lifetime. If a family of four replaces one 3.5 gpf toilet made between 1980 and 1994 with a WaterSense toilet, they can save $2,000 over the lifetime of the toilet. If the toilet being replaced was made before 1980, it uses 5 gallons per flush so the savings will be much greater.
Select a WaterSense Labeled High-Efficiency Toilet!
Whether you are remodeling a bathroom, beginning construction of a new house, or just want to replace an old, leaky toilet, a WaterSense labeled HET from us is your best bet. If every home in the United States replaced just one old toilet with a new HET, we would save almost one trillion (spelled with a T) gallons of water per year, equal to more than two weeks of the water flowing over Niagara Falls!
Residential China
Our offering of Residential China products isn’t made up with just one toilet and one lavatory.
Our Residential China product line is quite extensive – we offer multiple styles of low water consumption toilets, oval & round drop-in lavatories, undermount lavatories plus two styles of pedestal lavs.
Our drop-in lavs are available in either 4”, 8” or single hole drilling. Along with having two different basin sizes for our pedestal lavatories (Standard basin 23 ¼” in width vs. the Petite 20 ¼” in width) both pedestal lavs are available in 4” or 8” centers. Our two piece toilets are available with two different styles of tanks (Designer & Traditional). Our toilets are available in three different heights (standard, comfort & ADA). We offer a low consumption 1.6 GPF toilet plus a 1.28 GPF High Performance Flushing toilet – which carries the “Water Sense Approved” certification. To complete our toilet collection we even offer a Designer One-Piece High Efficiency (1.28 GPF) toilet.
All of our China products are produced from grade-A Vitreous China with a soft white glaze. Our Residential China products are Ceramic material that has been glazed with enamel. The enamel material starts off as powdered glass. Then an intense amount of heat is applied to the powdered glass, the result is a liquid glass that is used to coat ceramic objects. When this glass is allowed to cool we are able to create Vitreous China. Vitreous China the material itself is a chemically-resistant, durable, smooth, shiny, and impossible to burn thus adding to the quality and durability of the product.
We believe in quality which is why we only use grade-A Vitreous China – we would never supply you with a product that we wouldn’t use in our own home.
Seasons Residential 1.6 GPF Toilet
If you are faced with the challenge of replacing a bathroom toilet and you just aren’t sure whether or not your local supplier will have what you need – fear “No More” we have what you need!
Our Season’s Toilets are available with a round or elongated bowl plus your choice of two unique tank styles each with a color matched tank lever. Our toilets can accommodate special needs and meet ADA requirements, plus we offer them in comfort height of 17” and a standard height of 15 ½”.
Our toilets are made with Grade “A” China, utilize Siphon Jet Action flushing technology, have a 2” Fully Glazed Trapway, plus they only use 1.6 gallons of water per flush. This toilet is also available in 10”, 12” or 14” Rough-In application.
All Seasons Residential 1.6 GPF Toilets are available in either White or Biscuit.